7
drone flights over South San Francisco that day.
8:01 am
first takeoff; the last was at 10:10 pm.
9 min
median flight. Half were shorter.
South San Francisco police drones flew 7 times on Friday 21 August 2026, the first at 8:01 am and the last at 10:10 pm PDT, by South San Francisco Police Department's published record.
One flight, takeoff to landingSensitive-purpose flight, as an area
Hour by hour
Takeoffs by hour, PDT.
Why, in the agency's words
Flights, in order
7 flights. Those in the latest full month link to their own page; a flight with a sensitive stated purpose has no page of its own.
| Takeoff (PDT) | Purpose | Airborne | Flight |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8:01 am | Call for service | 9 min | 9c1835d4 |
| 8:14 am | Assisting another agency | 11 min | 7693cfa4 |
| 3:01 pm | Call for service | 19 min | 881e774f |
| 4:42 pm | Call for service | 3 min | 786d0667 |
| 8:30 pm | Traffic and crashes | 3 min | 48707721 |
| 9:13 pm | Traffic and crashes | 9 min | 315ddc4d |
| 10:10 pm | Call for service | 10 min | 23b42718 |
How this page is made
- Every flight in the agency's published record is counted and listed; drawn paths are the whole flight, simplified to 10 m.
- The record's free-text description is never read into a page. A flight whose stated purpose names a domestic, sexual-assault, kidnapping, welfare, mental-health or juvenile matter is listed like any other but drawn as a generalised area, not a path.
- Operators are the agency's own accounts in the record, numbered within the agency in order of first flight; no name or address is read into a page.
- Purposes are the agency's own words, grouped into classes by a committed lookup table; unmatched values are "Other" and blank ones "Not stated".
- Times are converted to the agency's clock through the IANA zone database, never a fixed offset.
- A day is the agency's local calendar day of takeoff.
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